wccm wnnw

[A Joseph Ross]

Aren't there any listeners out beyond the range of the translator who 
might be able to get the AM signal?  Are there areas where the 
translator competes with another signal?  Kinda like WJIB's translator 
competes with the Millis translator in Newton?  I know there are times 
when I switch my car radio to WJIB on AM, when the translator signal 
gets unlistenable.

On 2/1/2018 10:24 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> 800 did sound pretty good in HD when I last heard them some years ago on a Sony tabletop, but I guess with the FM translator, no one is listening to the AM anyway. The HD-2 on 102.9 was an English language program, but the audio level was very low. I turned the radio up full volume before I heard the sound. I wonder if at some point, the FCC will let stations turn off the AM and just keep the translator going.
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> From: Don [mailto:astelle.donald@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 9:44 PM
> To: Jim Hall <aerie.ma@comcast.net>
> Cc: Boston Radio Mailing List <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Subject: Re: wccm wnnw
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> WNNW 800 AM shut off the HD......because they said they were "having trouble keeping the transmitter "stable"".
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> (Considering that the trasmitter is somewhat new, I am surprised.)
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> In other words they couldn't figure out how to make it work right.
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> Given that they play lots of music on that station, I am surprised.
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> They seem to have so many signals that no one is actually monitoring them.
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> They once had a corrupted file running as a repeating loop on one of their HD signals....and it ran like that for weeks.
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> This whole operation WNNW, WCCM, WCED, 98.9FM, WMXV, 102.9-HD-1 & HD-2......could use a few professionals in the building.
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> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Jim Hall <aerie.ma@comcast.net <mailto:aerie.ma@comcast.net> > wrote:
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> My new car has HD radio, and I was checking the radio's performance while
> driving around the Lowell/Andover region today. WBZ comes in with a stable
> HD signal (probably 25 miles direct line from Hull), but I was surprised to
> find that WNNW (800) no longer broadcasts in HD. I wasn't sure it was the
> station or the new radio, so I actually drove up to the transmitter site to
> make sure. No HD. I switched over to their translator, and that was in HD.
> The HD1 was perfectly fine, but the volume on the HD2 channel was nearly
> non-existent (reminded me of how WILD was for a while). I also checked out
> WCCM (1570). Thinking I would be blasted out of my car parked 100 feet from
> the 50,000 watt signal, I turned down the volume before switching. But
> actually the signal was listenable, but not as strong as I was expecting,
> and I was wondering if maybe they are transmitting from somewhere else?
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